Every day, 10% of Claudia Diniz's sales disappear. Opportunity Fund, a nonprofit lender, siphons off the money and treats it as payment on a $35,000 loan Diniz used to stock the shelves of her Los Gatos, Calif., clothing store. Diniz, 37, loves how easy the process is. "We have months that we sell and months that we struggle," she says. "So I say, when I sell well I pay more — and when I'm struggling I pay less."
Opportunity Fund developed the EasyPay loan in order to serve businesses who don't qualify for regular term loans. The organization also hopes the loan will prevent entrepreneurs from turning to merchant cash advances, a similar but much more expensive form of credit. "It's just ridiculous, how much money they pay," Diniz says of friends who are paying off cash advances from private companies. Read more...
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